Calendar.



Patented Mar. 4,1902. H. W. MGALL.

CALENDAR.

(Application led Nay, 3D, l1901..)

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HENRY W. MCALL, OF ARED HILL, ENGLAND.

CALENDAR.

. YSPESE?ICA'ILION forming part lof Letters Patent No. 694,881, dated March 4, 1902. I Application tiled November 30| 1901. Serial No. 84,218. iNo model.)

Be it known that I, HENRY W. lvICALL,a subject of the King of England, and a resident of Red Hill, in the county of Surrey, England, (whose postoffice address is care of Capital and Counties Bank, Red Hill, Surrey, England,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a calendar which shall be available for every purpose that an ordinary' calendar is available for andin addition shall serve such purposes for a long series of years; and the object of myinvention is to produce a calendar'of this character in such a way that it will be greatly simplilied and its use greatly facilitated.

To these ends my invention consists in a ce1'- tain novel arrangement of the years, months, day-numerals, and names of days, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim, reference being made to the accompanying drawing, which represents the preferred arrangement of my improved calendar. Y

As shown in said drawing, my calendar comprises fourrectangular panels or spaces A, B, C, and D, of which panel B is vertically beneath panel A, panel D is vertically beneath panel C, and panels B and D are laterally disposed in relation one to the other. Each panel is made up of anumber of vertical columns, the panel A being made up of two sets of columns-namely, vertical colunins o., containing numerals designating all the common years, and vertical columns a',

containing numerals designating all the leapy years, embraced within the space of time which the calendar isto cover, (in the present case from 1801 to 2000,) the panel B being made up of two sets of columns, each containing the names of all the months ina yearnamely, vertical columns b in vertical alinement with the common-year columns a and vertical columns b' in vertical alinement with needing horizontal rows, and panel D being made up of vertical columns d, equal in number to the vertical columns c and in vertical alinement therewith, each containing all the tation. Said panel D is also divided into horizontal row-spaces y, and the names of the days in the succeeding vertical columns d, counting from left to right, commence with successive days of the week, so that the names of ythe days of the week also read sert'az'm horizontally' and produce an acrostic vedect, and the panel B is further divided intothorizontal row-spaces in which the month-names are located, and these row-spaces as of panel B are in horizontal alinement with the row-spaces 'y of panel D.

For example, if the lst of January, 1902,

of years. Follow down this column as far as Jan andtrace the sane horizontal row, when Wed will be found under the first day of the month. VThus the `lst day of January, 1902, is Wednesday. Suppose, again, it 'be required to know the Sundays of IApril, 1925. Look for 1925 (in fifth column) and trace down the column until April is reached. Follow this row across and the Sun days are seen to be the 5th, 12th, 19th, and the 26th. Y

To facilitate locating the years, they are arranged in approximate sequence, by which I mean to say the numbersl follow consecutivelyin the ordinary direction of reading and in succeeding horizontal lines, so far as is compatible with .their arrangement in the proper verticalcolumns with the months, the arrangement being such that all the numbers in any given decade are distributed in not more than two horizontal lines and the decades reading in order from the top downward.. By separating the leap-years from the com mon years or treating them in separate colums I avoid the objectionable duplication of the name of a month in alinernent with any vone year and with the attendant danger of selecting the wrong month-celu mn, even though the names be differentiated by a distinguishing-mark. By the vertical arrangement of the year-numbers shown I am'enabled to make a symmetrical diagonal disposition'of the individual month-spaces. For example, cornmencing with the upper left-hand corner of the months-panel it is seen that the group Jan Oct. is repeated diagonally'downnames of the days of the week in regular rois required, 1902 is in the fourth column y ward and to the right. This facilitates linding the desired'monih-column and row-space, for once the name of a month is discovered in any column after the calendar has been used a few times the eye instinctively follows the diagonal line to the proper column.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A calendar comprising four rectangular panels, A, B, C, and D, each dividedinto vertical columns respectively containing the numernls of years, the names of months, the ordinals of the days of the month and the names of the days of the week; the years being arranged in approximate sequence in the ordinary direction of reading, the leap-years being contained in a group of columns to one side of the group of columns'containing common years; the columns containing the names HENRY W. MCALL.

' In presence of- HERVEY S. KNIGHT, EDWIN S. CLARKsoN. 

